Searching For The Best Shawarma In Lagos: Bay Lounge

FOLLY: I think I went off shawarma for a while because even when I worked across the street from Murphis Plaza all of last year, I never ordered once.

NOSA: We checked out Bay Lounge’s shawarma on the recommendation of one our most loyal readers - @kbanasko.

FOLLY: She's been going on about this place for a while. We finally decided to honor her "invitation".

NOSA: According to the menu, Bay Lounge’s chicken shawarma comes with mozzarella and chicken sausage. Found the sausage, but the mozzarella was missing in action. Maybe that was a good thing.

FOLLY: I think the cheese would have given the shawarma some much-needed moisture. It didn't even have the ubiquitous mayo-ketchup sauce.

NOSA: The chicken shawarma is more chicken wrap than chicken shawarma if I’m being completely honest. Mine was unbelievably dry on the inside.

FOLLY: Same here, totes dry. The beef was thinly sliced beef steak as they said it would be though so 100 points for that.

NOSA: It didn’t have the typical pink shawarma “sauce” you find in almost every Nigerian shawarma. Before you call me a Philistine, it didn’t have any garlic so they definitely weren’t going authentic Lebanese style.

FOLLY: They were going Bay Lounge style because this was unlike any shawarma I'd ever encountered.

NOSA: I’ll give them a little credit, though, the girth was respectable.

Pause.

FOLLY: LOL. It was very well wrapped though cause it never fell apart.

NOSA: Props to them for using proper beef strips in their beef shawarma.

POSTSCRIPT

NOSA: It's the most expensive shawarma we've encountered and it's not as good as any we've tried so it’s going to be a “no” for me on Bay Lounge shawarma. If only there was was some magical way to combine their shawarma size with the Wrap City taste. We’d be on to something.